Lock-front collar.



S. SGHLESINGBR.

LOOK FRONT COLLAR.

APPLYIOATIOH FILED 11211.1. 1911.

1 999,882 Patented Aug; 8, 1911.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR j Jf m2 BY f ATTORNEY UN'ITED STATES PATEN OFFICE.

,To all whom it may concern:- a

Be it known that I, SIGMUND SoHLEs!N-- GER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria- Hungary, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have in-' vented an Improvement in Lock-Front Collars, of which the-following is a specification.

I the intersection of the outer fold'wit-hthe" a This inventionhas for its object to pro-' duce aturn-over collar which shall be provided with locking means that will hold the ends thereof, even of the widest collars, in-

close contact with each other and will, thereby greatly prolon the life of. the collar owing to the fact t t in attachment the ends are locked before the outer flap is buttoned, thereby avoiding strain Jpon the collar at band. v I

.It is of course wellunderstood that In turn-over collarsjeither tearing or wearin at'the intersection 'of the outer fold wit the band 1 ruins the appearance of the collar at the intersection of the'outer -fold with i to indicate the several' parts:

andthat" the life ofcollars is usually terminated bywear ortearing away at this point.

' Furthermore, so far as I am aware, no collar has heretofore been produced that was locked closed at the front so that the front ends would not separate. under any or" the conditions of use. j V 1 My present invention wholly overcomes the objections above stated and provides a- 'collar whose ends cannot become separated under any of the conditions of use-and in which thedanger of wearing and tearing the, band shall -be reducedto the rninimum.

-, With' these and other objects in view I have devised the novel locking collar which I will now describe, referring to the accomanying. drawing formin a' part of this specification and using re eren'cecharacters Figure .1 is a perspective of the collar as in'us'e, the inner'flap being buttoned and the outer flap in position-to illustrate the op- -efation of locking, the-outer fold corre sponding with the outer flap beingturned back out of the way; and Fig. .2 is a perspective 'illustratingthe collar locked and buttoned as in use. i

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed April 1, 1911. Serial No. 618,419.

vway with the buttonhole. I have shown;

'. Having thus described my invention sre rnu'n sonnnsmenn, or BRIDGEPOBT, coNNEc'rIU'r.

I I 'LQCK-FRONT ooLLAn.

Patented Aug. 8, 1911.

the position-of-this notch as slightly in advance of the buttonholel Acting in Coops oration with this notch is a notch 17'inthet band at the other end-jof-the-collar; Notch 17 extends .from the bottom of the collar upward and lies wholly back of the but-' tonhole, The notches are in practice worked I the same as the butt-onholes; vIt will; of course be obvious that the exact locatlon of the notches will vary in difierent collars.

depending upon the style of the collars and' "the effect itis desired to produce at the front.

The operation of attaching a. collar will berreadily understood from Fig. 1 in connec 7 5 tion with F 2.' i 1 he inner flap is first buttoned, as in Fig. hand then the notches are engaged by lifting the unattached endupward, passing the end of the attached inner flap between the band and-the" outer fold of the detached end of the collar and then-moving the detached end of the collar downward with the end of the'inner flag still-between the detached end of-the ban and the corresponding outer fold and'the -oute'r ,fiap lying outside of both the inner flapand the outer fold, ofthe attached end of the collar; The end of the outer flapis then drawn backward and passed under the outer fold of the attached endof the col Ian and then the button is pressed-through v the'button hole of the outer flap, which will be in alinement therewith.

claim: 1 p

A turndown collar formed with a band and a'n-outer'fold, the ends of said band be.

ing extended beyond said fold to form inner and outer-flaps, each provided with a button f hole, the innerflap being provided with-711 100 notch'leading downward from the top ed at a point between the buttonhole and 0%:

extremity of the flap, the outer flap being In testimony whereof I a'ffix my signaprovided with a notch extending upwardly Hire in presence of two Witnesses.

from the lower edge the button hole bein i i t x w between said notch aid the end of said flup SIGMUND SCHLEbINULh' whereby both notches are hidden by the vtitne'fises:

outer fold of the collar when the notches are V A. M. woos'lnn,

engaged. S. W. ATHERTON. 

